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"To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy."
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"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."
"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."
"The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation."
"Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush."
"Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!"
"Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy."
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"It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."
"Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias."
"So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it."
"Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy."
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."
"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."
"The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours."
"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
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